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Looking towards Farnham from Thursley Common

WordNet 3.6

adjcommonhaving no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual"the common man","a common sailor","the common cold","a common nuisance","followed common procedure","it is common knowledge that she lives alone","the common housefly","a common brand of soap"

adjcommonbelonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public"for the common good","common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"

adjcommonbeing or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language"common parlance","a vernacular term","vernacular speakers","the vulgar tongue of the masses","the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

adjcommonof or associated with the great masses of people"the common people in those days suffered greatly","behavior that branded him as common","his square plebeian nose","a vulgar and objectionable person","the unwashed masses"

adjcommonto be expected; standard"common decency"

adjcommonlacking refinement or cultivation or taste"he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind","behavior that branded him as common","an untutored and uncouth human being","an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy","appealing to the vulgar taste for violence","the vulgar display of the newly rich"

adjcommoncommon to or shared by two or more parties"a common friend","the mutual interests of management and labor"

adjcommonof low or inferior quality or value"of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare","produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

ncommona piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area"they went for a walk in the park"

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Additional illustrations & photos:

The Devil's Jumps, from Frensham Common

The Golf House and Windmill, Wimbledon Common

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON SIGHTS IN NORTHWICH

Common Bend

Fruits common to most of the States

One of the Book-plates of Robert Harley as a Commoner

The Common Swallow

A SESSION OF COMMON SENSE

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
In the U.S. the most common excuse made to get out of paying a ticket is to say they missed the sign

CommonAn inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

CommonBelonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property."Though life and sense be common to men and brutes."

CommonBelonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer."Such actions as the common good requireth.""The common enemy of man."

CommonGiven to habits of lewdness; prostitute."A dame who herself was common ."

CommonNot distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense."The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life.""This fact was infamous
And ill beseeming any common man,
Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.""Above the vulgar flight of common souls."

CommonOften met with; usual; frequent; customary."Grief more than common grief."

Common(Law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

CommonTo board together; to eat at a table in common.

CommonTo converse together; to discourse; to confer."Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of."

CommonTo have a joint right with others in common ground.

CommonTo participate.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
The most common name in the world is Mohammed

commonOf or pertaining to all—that is, to all the human race, or to all in a given country, region, or locality; being a general possession or right: of a public nature or character.

commonPertaining equally to, or proceeding equally from, two or more; joint: as, life and sense are common to man and beast; it was done by common consent of the parties.

commonNot distinguished from the majority of others; of persons, belonging to the general mass; not notable for rank, ability, etc.; of things, not of superior excellence; ordinary: as, a common soldier; the common people; common food or clothing.

commonOf the common people.

commonTrite; hackneyed; commonplace; low; inferior; vulgar; coarse.

commonAt the disposal of all; prostitute.

commonNot sacred or sanctified; ceremonially unclean.

commonIn grammar: Both masculine and feminine; optionally masculine or feminine: said of a word, in a language generally distinguishing masculine and feminine, which is capable of use as either.

commonUsed indifferently to designate any individual of a class; appellative; not proper: as, a common noun: opposed to proper (which see).

commonIn prosody, either long or short; of doubtful or variable quantity: as, a common vowel; a common syllable. In ancient prosody a common syllable is generally one containing a short vowel in weak position (see position), as the penult of alacris, feminine of alăcer. In Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit poetry the last syllable of a verse or period is common—that is, can be either long or short, no matter which quantity is required by the meter.

commonIn anatomy: Not peculiar or particular; not specialized or differentiated: as, the common integument of the body.

commonForming or formed by other more particular parts: as, the common carotid or common iliac artery, as distinguished from the internal and external arteries of the same name; the common trunk of a nerve, as distinguished from its branches; the common origin of the coracobrachialis muscle and of the short head of the biceps muscle—that is, the origin which they have in common.

commonIn entomology, continuous on two united surfaces: said of lines and marks which pass in an uninterrupted manner from the anterior to the posterior wings when both are extended, or of

commonmarks or processes on the two elytra which when closed appear as one.

commonIn those parts of the southern United States which were formerly a province of France, small tracts of land, usually from one to three yards in width by forty in length and fenced in, which were cultivated by the inhabitants of villages.

commonMore appropriately, the parts of the former system which do not rest for their authority on any subsisting express legislative act; the unwritten law. In this sense common law consists in those principles and rules which are gathered from the reports of adjudged cases, from the opinions of text-writers and commentators, and from popular usage and custom, in contradistinction to statute law.

commonMore narrowly, that part of the system just defined which was recognized and administered by the king's justices, in contradistinction to the modifications introduced by the chancellors as rules of equity in restraint or enlargement of the customary and statutory law (see equity), and, in respect of procedure, in contradistinction to the code practice.

commonIn music, duple and quadruple rhythm. The usual sign (A) for these rhythms is derived from the theory of medieval musicians that duple rhythm was imperfect, and so to be indicated by a half or broken circle (B). It is not the initial of the word “common,” since originally triple rhythm was regarded as the standard or perfect rhythm. The sign A now usually signifies quadruple rhythm, four beats to the measure, while C signifies duple rhythm, two beats to the measure. Also called common time.

commona consideration or argument applicable to a variety of cases. See place.

commonSound practical judgment; good sense; the practical sense of the greater part of mankind, especially as unaffected by logical subtleties or imagination.

commonEqually with another or with others; all equally; for equal use or participation in by two or more: as, tenants in common; to provide for children in common; to assign lands to two or more persons in common; we enjoy the bounties of Providence in common.

commonIn public.

commonCommon, Ordinary, Vulgar, Mean. These words are on a descending scale. Common is opposed to rare, unusual, or refined; ordinary, to distinguished or superior; vulgar, to polite or refined; mean, to high or eminent.

ncommon[⟨ ME. comon, comun, comyn, etc., usually in pl. comons, etc., the common people, commons (people), commons (fare), = MHG. commū ne, comū ne, ⟨ OF. commune, French commune (⟩ mod. E. commune, n.) = Pr. comuna, comunia = It. comuna, ⟨ L. commune, that which is common, the community, in ML. a commune (mixed with ML. communia and communa, a common pasture, common right, a society, guild), prop. neut. of communis, common: see above.] One of the common people; collectively, the people at large; the public; the lower classes.

ncommonplural See commons.

ncommonA tract of ground the use of which is not appropriated to an individual, but belongs to the public or to a number; in law, an open ground, or that soil the use of which belongs equally to the inhabitants of a town or of a lordship, or to a certain number of proprietors.

ncommonIn law, a right which one person may have to take a profit from the land or waters of another, as to pasture his cattle, to dig turf, to catch fish, to cut wood, or the like, in common with the owner of the land: called common of pasture, of turbary, of piscary, of estovers, etc. Common, or right of common, is said to be appendant, appurtenant, because of vicinage, or in gross. Common appendant is a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the lord's waste, and upon the lands of other persons within the same manor. Common appurtenant may be annexed to lands in other lordships, or extend to other beasts besides those which are generally commonable; this is not of common right, but is to be claimed only by immemorial usage and prescription. Common because of vicinage, or neighborhood, is where the inhabitants of two townships lying contiguous to each other have usually intercommoned with one another, the beasts of the one straying into the other's fields; this is a permissive right. Common in gross, or at large, is annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole.

commonTo participate in common; enjoy or suffer in common.

commonTo confer; discourse together; commune; speak.

commonTo have a joint right with others in common ground.

commonTo live together or in common; eat at a table in common. Also commonize.

commonTo communicate.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
Muhammad is the most common first name in the world.

adjCommonkom′un belonging equally to more than one: public: general: usual: frequent: ordinary: easy to be had: of little value: vulgar: of low degree

nCommon(Shak.) the commonalty: a tract of open land, used in common by the inhabitants of a town, parish, &c

v.iCommon(Shak.) to share

adjCommoncommon: hackneyed

v.iCommonto make notes: to put in a commonplace-book

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Quotations

Ann Landers

“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”

Edward Gibbon

“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”

French Proverb

“None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.”

Josh Billings

“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”

Idioms

The common weal - If something is done for the common weal, it is done in the interests and for the benefit of the majority or the general public.

Adli and colleagues recruited acutely depressed patients who were unresponsive to an antidepressant-only treatment, and augmented their therapy with lithium, the most common medication used to treat bipolar disorder.

In science:

If we count common points with multiplicities in the sense deﬁned above, it follows that two conics with ﬁve points in common coincide.

Sextactic points on a simple closed curve

If not, then one could (very unnaturally) assume a common enumeration of the vertices af each countable graph, also to consider countable graphs imbedded to a common ”background” space.

Gibbs and Quantum Discrete Spaces

Fortran common block.1 These common blocks are described in detail in the next two sections, followed by some examples.

Generic User Process Interface for Event Generators

These may have common nodes besides their endpoints, but from the fact that π strictly increases along both of them, it follows that their common nodes are in the same order on both paths.

Determining the Genus of a Map by Local Observation of a Simple Random Process

Then questions, more directly related to the hierarchical merging scenario, follow: how common are decoupled cores, how common and massive are black holes in galactic nuclei? Other integrated quantities such as colours and line indices can then help us to examine the stellar population content of these galaxies.

Probing the stellar populations of early-type galaxies: the SAURON survey

The largest common divisor of a with k has to be 1 because otherwise also 2a will have a non trivial largest common divisor with k → thus we see that if k is odd we will have only one KI, and if k is even we will have two different KI s (say A,B).

Marginal Deformations of N=4 SYM and of its Supersymmetric Orbifold Descendants

Let P0 be an orthogonal projection on a common eigenspace corresponding to the common zero eigenvalue of the family {Y (q) | q ∈ supp µc}.

Random groups in the optical waveguides theory

The matrix hV i satisﬁes the hypothesis of Theorem 2.2, so the limit of the expression hV iN (R) as N → ∞ exists and is equal to P0 (R), where P0 is the pro jection on the common kernel of the operators Y (Θ), or equivalently, the common eigenspace of the operator family (3.6), corresponding to the eigenvalue 1.

Random groups in the optical waveguides theory

This means that (within the same period range) instead of MJ up mass exoplanets being twice as common as 2MJ up exoplanets, we ﬁnd they are slightly more than three times as common.

In the case when {ck } are independent standard Gaussian random variables, the correlation functions are SO(d + 1)-invariant, and the average number of the common real zeros is the square root of the total number of common complex zeros (see [EK], [Kos], [ShSm]).

Correlations between zeros of non-Gaussian random polynomials

Since the number of critical points of h is ﬁnite, we can perhaps after passing over to a further subsequence assume that all the vνj are ﬂow lines with cascades from a common critical point c of h to a common critical point d of h.

The Arnold-Givental conjecture and moment Floer homology

In order to estimate this sum we ﬁrst observe that if two balanced partitions σ and τ have exactly z black vertices in common, then they must also have exactly z white vertices in common.

Random k-SAT: Two Moments Suffice to Cross a Sharp Threshold

Now suppose that the fi do have a highest common factor, and write fi = f gi such that the gi, i ∈ J, do not have a common factor.

Looking out for stable syzygy bundles

Each pair x, y ∈ X has a well-deﬁned greatest common lower bound, x ∧ y, in this partial order that we think of as the most recent common ancestor of x and y .